What a buyer sees
MERE GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB LIMITED
Hotels and similar accommodation · Glossop · 01742343
52staff · FY2025
43years trading
—oldest owner on file
£363kcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£2.4Mfor the year to 2025
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
What your filings show moving
Staff52
2021181 → 522025
Cash at bank£363k
2021£1.2M → £363k2025
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£47,006in the middle half
£34,449£52,234£92,550
Debtor daysdays7in the bottom quarter
71234
Creditor daysdays10
92050
Stock daysdays18in the top quarter
4632
Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.
What a buyer would ask 3
- Headcount fell from 185 to 52A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Stock days run high for your tradeYours is 18 against 6 for the middle of 123 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.
What a buyer would like 2
- 43 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Debtor days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 7 against 12 for the middle of 136 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 56since 2024
- 29since 2024
| Year to | Filed | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-07-21 | £2.4M | 52 | £363k |
| 2023-12-31 | — | £8.7M | 185 | £222k |
| 2021-12-31 | — | £8.1M | 181 | £1.2M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
0.4–0.9× sales£980k£2.2M
The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.